Menstruation is a Disease

PLEASE NOTE: This is coming directly from naturalnews.com  The author is Mike Adams.  He is 100% on target with this article, and it is so important that more people, particularly women, get this information.  I could not have done a better job delivering this information in my own words.

"As I was horrified to discover upon turning on the TV in a hotel room recently, drug companies are now pushing pills that promise women a significant reduction in the frequency of menstruation.  The implication, of course, is that menstruation is a disease that needs to be treated with pharmaceuticals, and that chemically interfering with your own natural hormone cycle is not merely healthy, but even hip!

These ads promise putting you "back in control" of your life, but they say nothing about the fact that these drugs are, in reality, wildly experimental.  There have been absolutely no long-term tests conducted on the use of such menstruation-blocking pills.  Thus, the women taking these pills are  unwittingly participating in a grand medical experiment with results that are entirely unknown.

Well, not entirely.  I can tell you right now what one of the results will likely be: A massive increase in endometriosis in women who take these pills.  Why?  Because menstruation is a normal, healthy biological function that results in the elimination and rebuilding of uterine tissue on a regular basis.  Chemically interfering with that process will cause significant stagnation of not only uterine tissues, but also the reproductive organs.  Tissues that aren't allowed to be expelled as they normally should will wind up deposited in areas where they shouldn't be, which is of course the very basis for endometriosis.

But you won't hear about this for several years, of course.  These pills will be pushed onto unsuspecting women with false promise of complete safety, and then one day doctors will shockingly discover that a huge percentage of these women are infertile, suffering from endometriosis or ovarian cancer.  There will be a big investigation, and a class-action lawsuit, and the government will come along and grant the drug companies blanket immunity, and the press will run stories asking, "What happened?"  Well, I can tell you what happened: Misleading ads pushed dangerous drugs onto gullible consumers, and all the journals, health authorities and community leaders just stood by and watched it happen without saying a word."

Mike's article basically ends there.  He goes on to say how awful TV is, how bad news anchors are, Nutrisystem and Slimfast are junk and some political stuff.  If you care to read the rest of it you can do so here.  If over time this link doesn't work, I apologize, but I won't be putting any effort into making sure it continues to work.  I'm only concerned with what I've included above.

I would like to add only this.  Most drugs are no different that Yaz or any other similar birth control pill.  They all work to alter processes within the body, usually processes that are working exactly as they should in response to something.  The problem is that something, not the response by the body.  Does it really make sense to alter the response?

Food Irradiation

Due to recent salmonella and E. coli outbreaks, interest in new technology to provide safer food has risen.  This new technology seems to be pointed in the direction of highly controversial irradiation. 

The CDC claims that the food is in no way damaged, except that all living parts, i.e. seeds, are killed.  They maintain that the nutritional content, vitamins and minerals, will not be changed.  Handling of the food should not change since contamination can sill occur after irradiation.

However, according to Organic Consumers Organization, what the CDC says and what is truth are two completely different things.  They say that irradiation does damage food and does so by creating free radicals.  Free radicals are known for wrecking havoc inside the human body, this is why antioxidants are so important to our health, antioxidants that are often provided by fresh, non-irradiated fruits and vegetables.  While free radicals can kill harmful bacteria on produce, they will also damage the vitamin and mineral content.

During the break down of vitamins, minerals and other food components - including pesticides - new chemicals are created called unique radiolytic products (URPs).  Some of the URPs are known toxins.  Others are 100% unknown therefore no one knows what potentially harmful effects they can have on the human body.

While the CDC says approval of food irradiation is based on animal studies which showed safety in several generation of animals, Organic Consumers points out the longest study involving human consumption was a mere 15 weeks.  There are no studies involving the long-term effects, nor are there studies involving the feeding of infants and children.  In addition, Marcia van Gemert, Ph.D and toxicologist who chaired the FDA committee that approved irradiation says the FDA based its approval on just 5 of 441 animal studies.

Food contamination is often due to fecal contamination that results from careless processing and faulty federal inspection.  Irradiation does nothing to solve those issues.  Bottom line, irradiation may reduce the nutritional content of foods, and in today's world of heavily processed foods, those nutrients could be absolutely detrimental to the health of America.

For more information visit www.organicconsumers.org